SNP blueprint for English military bases to stay in independent Scotland ‘a fantasy’

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An SNP proposal which would see an independent Scotland allow English soldiers, sailors and airmen to continue being based north of the border has been described as a “fantasy” by the party’s opponents.

The plan will be floated at this week’s SNP conference in Inverness and is an attempt to head off predictions that if Scotland separated from the rest of the UK, thousands of defence jobs would go and military bases would be withdrawn.

Angus Robertson, the SNP defence spokesman at Westminster and the MP for Moray, which houses two RAF bases, will portray the invitation to the military